On the one or two occasions we’ve mentioned Green Party presidential candidate (and former Georgia Congresswoman) Cynthia McKinney, someone inevitably wants to know why we think she’s crazy, or complains that we’re not being fair, or touts her propensity for speaking truth to power. So, in the interest of fairness:
I just got off a very long flight and may not be seeing this correctly but is she saying that the government took the opportunity to kill 5000 inmates during the chaos of the hurricane then dump them in a swamp? Can you imagine what that would smell like no matter where that swamp was and also someone would notice these guys are missing? She is beyond crazy!
Technically she’s saying she heard the story from some woman who heard it from her son, but yeah, she’s passing this along as if she believes it. You’d think there’d be 5,000 families all around the country clamoring to visit their loved ones in prison and demanding to know why they can’t see them. You’d think the Louisiana prison system would need to account on a regular basis for the upkeep (or lack thereof) of 5,000 inmates (what percentage of the LA prison population might 5,000 represent?).
And to think I used to live in her district…
Wow, it really is sad how people can believe anything. I guess when you are brought up to believe in a big guy in the sky and a devil in hell you are set up to believe just about anything. Sad.
Actually, I don’t think this comes from religion so much as from a irrational and hyperactive distrust of government and/or a desire to appeal to those with such a distrust. Cynthia McKinney’s not all that religious; in fact, I think she was raised Catholic.
“Cynthia McKinney’s not all that religious; in fact, I think she was raised Catholic.”
Well which is it????
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It doesn’t specifically have to do with religion. It specifically has to do with credulousness to the point that a person in a leadership position (even in the Greens) will believe crazy conspiracy theories without demanding independent evidence; also, a complete lack of faith in the political establishment, to the point of believing that the government actually would want to kill 5000 inmates. And yeah, maybe a level of general ignorance so high that a person can’t grasp the logistical problems involved in executing such a conspiracy.
Remember guys, just 20 years ago, y’all thought there was a secret cabal of Satanists who were molesting and killing your children.